Help identifying mystery part 2nd gen

Tie rods and steering rack replaced and found this in my driveway.I know its from my vehicle however I have had zero luck finding it on my truck. Any ideas??

 

Looks like a old school Speedometer cable drive...

 

Ive spent 2 hrs trying to track it down with zero luck. Theres a faint spot of yellow paint that came from fresh road lines a couple days ago so that helps me narrow it down some to driver side.

 

How are you certain it came from your truck? Always a possibility it got picked up while driving down road. I don’t recognize it at all.

 

I have splashes of yellow paint on my undercarriage, also on the cable. Would be a hell of a coincidence. I’m pretty savvy and always work on my vehicles and I have no clue. I’ve spent longer tracking down the cable then it took me to change my tie rods!

 

Looks like a speedometer drive cable to me. Probably fell off a scrap truck and got kicked up and clung to your truck until you pulled the skid plate.

 

Is your oil dipstick presently where it is supposed to be? That looks like the dipstick minus the yellow finger hole at the top

 

Another vote for an old speedometer cable innards. Maybe the mechanic used as a fish wire or tape to pull something through a tight spot and then left it sitting somewhere on your undercarriage.

I was watching an episode of Engine Power yesterday. They pulled a water pump off an old Ford engine and found a bumper bolt in one of the water passages in the block. Lord knows how it got there.

 

speedo cable or the shaft out of a dremel flex tool thingy

 

Definitely not from a Tacoma. I agree with above. It's an old speedo cable.

 

Apparently not saavy enough. It's an speedo cable as previously described above. It's not from your truck. Crisis averted. Lol.

 

That is most likely a drive cable. Speedometer perhaps, but looks too short for that. Could be a governor drive cable, although we're going back few years for that. The old stationary Cummins used a similar set-up to drive a tachometer. I like @tinker_troy 's answer of a drive cable for a Dremel flex tool thingy, although I've never had one apart.

 

Pretty sure this is the piece that connects the transmission to the diff.... What do they call it....? A drivema-shaft?

 

Im at a loss for sure. It does look an awful lot like an old-school speedometer core but since my truck doesn’t have one that makes it even stranger. Oh and to the guy who needed to belittle me, I simply asked a question about my vehicle, in a forum about said vehicle. I apologize that I can’t identify every single cable on every vehicle I own, I have more important things to do. And to all the guys that I’ve been helpful with my mystery cable I appreciate it. I wouldn’t call it a crisis, but def strange.

 

I love it when guys crack themselves up! I do it all the time!

 

There's one in every crowd.

 

If your speedometer and ebrake work it not off your vehicle...

 

Motorcycle?

 

or maybe it could be a drive cable out of a weedeater

do you have a neighbor with a temper and a new weedeater?

 

Ahhh...